Enhancement of superconducting properties of textured YBCO using double seeded technique

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 13, Issue 2 III, 2003, Pages 3072-3075

  Zhou, Y X ^a   Fang, H ^a   Balachandran, U ^b   Salama, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Double seeding; Re 123; Texturing HTS; Trapped field

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; LEVITATION MELTING; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MICROSTRUCTURE; SAMARIUM COMPOUNDS; YTTRIUM COMPOUNDS;

DOUBLE SEEDED TECHNIQUE;

SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 0042976554     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2003.812094     Document Type: Conference Paper

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